The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-26


 wife and seven children.
 .--Jack Hayes. the murderer ci Philip Mueller. in St. Louis in August, 1881, will hang. The President refuses to do any thing for the condemned man. Hayes was a bully and 6 thumper, and killed his man without cause.
 -The LuDg-Strauss chemical works at St. Louis burned Monday and six men lost their lives. The men were all firemen. There were five men in the room at the time Assistant Chief John Barry, Dan Moy- hanan. Godfrey Werges, Michael Yates and William Ward.
 Marshall people are juhilant over the invasion of the Missouri Pacific into that town.
 Wounded Knee is the name of a new postoffice in shannon county, Dakota.
 No eastern mail was received at Water town, D. T., for three days, owing to a Minnesota snow blockade.
 --One of two valuable dogs belonging to Charles Galligan of Paw Paw, Mich, took sick and it's owner gave it a pill. Mir. Cali. gan also gave the other dog pill to keep 1t from getting sick. Both animals died within ten minutes.
 --The Beaver Creek O. IT. Graphic says: lover at Rock Rapids drunken fellow was taken before a drunken judge to answer for the crime oi trying to chaw up another drunken fellow. In course of the trial one of the attorneys told the judge to go to- whereupon the judge fined the legal light for contempt Of the court, then damned him over the head with B dressed turkey. After the lamming the judge nd. journed the court for day or two in order to give all parties chance to sober up"
 Seven persons nave been arrested in Knox county, Kentucky, in connection with the murder of the Poe family in Oc- tober last.
 Governors were inaugurated as follows Tuesday: Beaver Of Pennsylvania, Green of New Jersey, Riggs of Delaware and Ross of Texas.
 At Delhi, N. r. the remains of John Griffin have been exhumed for examination, owing to suspicion that he was poisoned by his wife.
 Texas Knights of Labor, assembled in annual session at Austin, adopted resolu' tions denying that they were there in the interest oi any political candidate.
 Geo. W. Weber, book maker, Chicago, has failed; $75, 1000.
 Mary E. Kennedy, aged ss. died at Vandalia on Friday.
 Louis F. Dohmstreick. a prominent brewer of Detroit, was thrown from hh sleigh Saturday and killed.
 Two men named Quinn and Donovan were killed in snow slide Saturday at Sheridan mine, California.
 --Silleck s. Seafield is in jail in Brooklyn charged with bigamy. Three wives are par ties to the complaint.
 Mack Clark, aged B6, stabbed Jesse Smith, aged 25, through the brain with a knife at Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday. Both men were carpenters, and quarreled about debt.
 Senator Vance called on the President Saturday, the first timein nearly two years. His object was to protest against the pree- ent method oi executing the internal rev enue laws.
 At $130,000 fire occurred at Denver Sat urday, beginning in the queensware store of R. Douglass Co. and extending to Knight & Almon. clothers, J. Durbin, surgical in- struments J. c. Fitzpatrick, furniture, and Wadsworth X Sons, Minning Review.
 The Executive Committee of the Coast Defense Association of the coast cities of the South issued call. setting forth the de- fenceless condition of the cities and inviting the President and military officers to q con vention to be held at DeFuniak Springs, Fla, February s, to consider the best plan of protection.
 Malignant measles are on the increase in New York. Saturdays report showed 641 cases and seventy-two deaths for the week.
 "A fire in the store-nouses of the Frank fort (Ky.) Penitentiary Saturday night damaged the stock $30, 900 and the build ing $50. 900 worth.
 Frank Mccain was sentenced Saturday to twenty-one years Imprisonment for the murder of an unknown eolored man last July in Evansville, Ind.
 John Jackson killed George Fuchs, a anch man at Del Norte, Cal, by breaking a abilliard.cus over his head and jamming the broken end down his throat.
 In the general lighthouse bill $40. 900 is appropriated for another boat for the Miss issippi Light Service and $25.o00 for lighthouse supply depot at St. Louis.
 Rev. Steve P. Holcembe, the reformed gambler of Louisville, was sand-bagged kf l. tain